Women's Tennis Headline

Florida’s Olivia Janowicz
defeated Santa Clara’s Katie Le in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s
Tennis Singles Championships that began Wednesday at the Dan Magill Tennis
Complex in Athens, Georgia.

Janowicz, ranked No. 14, downed
the No. 31-rakned Le, 6-0, 6-2, and advanced to the round of 32 where she will
play Oklahoma State’s No. 52 Viktoriya Lushkova on Thursday at 10:30 a.m.

The Gator senior won the first
nine games of the match and never looked back en route to the decisive opening
round victory.

“I fought really hard for every
point and learned from the mistakes I made during the team competition here,”
Janowicz shared.

Not as fortunate on Wednesday
were Gator senior Alexandra Cercone and sophomore Brianna Morgan,
who lost their respective first-round matches.

Two Gator doubles teams were
selected and begin play in the 32-team event on Thursday.

·Note:Cercone caps her outstanding career with 189
combined singles and doubles wins, tied for the 24th-most in program history.

Senior Olivia Janowicz (Palm
Bay, Fla.)

·National Singles Ranking: No. 14 (NCAA Seed: 9-16)

·First Round:
defeated No. 31 Katie Le, Santa Clara, 6-0, 6-2

·Second Round Opponent:No. 52 Viktoriya
Lushkova, Oklahoma State

·Match Time: 10:30 a.m.

·NOTE: Florida defeated Oklahoma State in the 2014 NCAA
Second Round of the team competition; Janowicz played the No. 2 spot in the
Gator’s lineup, while Lushkova was at the No. 1 position so the two did not
meet in the dual match.

·Janowicz is competing in the singles draw for the second
time in her career (also in 2011, lost first round)

·Janowicz’s Career Singles Record: 128-31

·Janowicz’s 2013-14 Season Singles Record: 35-10

Sophomore Brianna Morgan
(Beverly Hills, Calif.)

·National Singles Ranking: No. 16

·First Round:
lost to No. 29 Stephanie Wagner, Miami-FL, 6-1, 6-2

·Morgan was competing in the singles draw for the first
time in her career.

·Morgan’s Career Singles Record: 56-13

·Morgan’s 2013-14 Season Singles Record: 29-8

NCAA Doubles Championships

·Two Gator tandems earned a spot in the 2014 NCAA Doubles
Championships 32-team field that begins Thu., May 22